The rising number of executions of former army and police in Afghanistan is being taken as clear evidence that the Taliban is not living up to its pledges of a general amnesty for all members of the ousted Afghan government's security forces.
Analysts say the planned unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan by September is a major victory for the Taliban.
In villages and towns across Afghanistan, grieving families mourning the loss of fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands in the country's fratricidal war are united in demanding peace for their country.
A spate of deadly urban attacks in Afghanistan has highlighted possible rifts between the Taliban leadership and the allied Haqqani network, the lethal arm of the militant group.
An offensive by Afghanistan’s Taliban militants appears to be aimed at reclaiming Afghanistan’s second city, which once served as the capital for the hard-line movement nearly a quarter-century ago.
The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan is now back in parts of Malakand Division, an administrative region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where thousands were killed and millions displaced during years of Taliban control and military operations.
More than a dozen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded after a car bomb was set off outside a local police headquarters in Ghor in central Afghanistan.
Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of conflict in the western region.
A vehicle laden with explosives detonated outside government buildings in the city of Firoz Koh, the capital of Afghanistan's Ghor Province, on October 18. More than a dozen people were killed and at least 100 wounded in the attack. Afghan authorities believe the Taliban was behind the blast.
Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh has been put in charge of the security situation in the capital amid a rise in crime that has caused an outcry among residents.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has accused the country’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government, pressuring the judiciary, and installing the current government of Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2018 elections.
Pakistani officials say several armed men have attacked a convoy transporting four armored vehicles for the NATO forces in Afghanistan and set them alight.
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